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    What's the best way to restart apache?

    My server is RH 7.3. I was wondering, is there a difference between running the command:

    /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd restart

    and:

    /etc/init.d/httpd stop
    /etc/init.d/httpd startssl

    to restart apache, after say, editing the httpd.conf file? I've gotten advise for both. Is one safer/better than the other?

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    httpd graceful is the best if it is a live server.

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    apachectl graceful

    above is the command i use.
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    Wow...I've never even heard of the above two commands. I gather:

    /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd restart

    is not a graceful command, and shouldn't be executed on a "live" server?

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    /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd graceful

    try the above.. if it works, use it.

    graceful does a restart without dropping connections currently made to the server.
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    That depends on why you want to do it. If you have simply made a change to the config file that you need to become active, then neither restart nor gracefull is needed. Simply make it re-read it's conf files..

    /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd reload

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    /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd is a script that calls apachectl

    apachectl configtest
    apachectl reload
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    Originally posted by Webdude
    That depends on why you want to do it. If you have simply made a change to the config file that you need to become active, then neither restart nor gracefull is needed. Simply make it re-read it's conf files..

    /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd reload
    Ah that's a good tip. In my case, I'm just asking what needs to be done after I edit httpd.conf.

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